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BREAKING: Donald Trump's week kicks off with nightmare news as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer demands an immediate investigation into the disastrous cuts to the National Weather Service that resulted in mass deaths during the Texas flash flooding.
We all know exactly who is to blame here...
In a letter to the Commerce Department’s Acting Inspector General Roderick Anderson, Schumer requested that he "open an investigation into the scope, breadth, and ramifications of whether staffing shortages at key local National Weather Service (NWS) stations contributed to the catastrophic loss of life and property during the deadly flooding.”
Schumer pointed to reporting from The New York Times which revealed that crucial forecasting and coordination jobs at the San Antonio and San Angelo National Weather Service offices were vacant when the flooding hit last Friday — almost certainly a direct result of cuts pushed through by Trump and Elon Musk's DOGE initiative.
Roughly 560 workers were fired from the NWS earlier this year as a result of the MAGA gutting of our government. Critical funding was slashed in order to pave the way for more billionaire tax cuts.
Predictably, Trump is refusing to take responsibility for the deaths, claiming that the flooding was a "once-in-a-100-years" event. Even if that were the case — and it's worth noting that "once-a-100-years" events are going to happen more frequently now because of climate change — the flooding likely could have been predicted with adequate staffing.
Among the vacant positions in San Antonio and San Angelo were the warning coordination meteorologist, a science officer, a senior hydrologist, as well as additional "vital forecasting, meteorology and coordination roles." Had these positions been filled it's quite possible that the flash flooding could have been predicted with enough time to evacuate endangered areas and save lives.
"These are the experts responsible for modeling storm impacts, monitoring rising water levels, issuing flood warnings, and coordinating directly with local emergency managers about when to warn the public and issue evacuation orders," wrote Schumer. "To put it plainly: they help save lives."
At least 82 people are dead. The flooding in Kerry County alone devastated an all-girls Christian summer camp, killing at least 27 people. Schumer suspects that the reduced NWS staffing caused a breakdown in coordination with local emergency authorities.
"This is a national tragedy which people across the country are mourning. The American people deserve answers," he wrote.
Unless this investigation is carried out and Trump's cuts are reversed, tragedies like this one are going to happen over and over again. Republicans are dismantling every piece of this country and if they get their way, the rest of us will end up stuck in a devastated dystopia while the oligarchs ride off with all of our nation's wealth.
Please retweet and ❤️ to demand an investigation!
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump could be forced to resign from presidency as soon as This Month
Trump was Just caught trying to Transfer $100 Billion of your Tax Dollars to Rich Bitcoin Owners
BREAKING - House Republicans’ latest budget KILLS funding for veterans hurt by toxic burn pits and Agent Orange
Trump and Musk also aim to FIRE over 80,000 from the VA — and have fired thousands of vets from govt jobs
Trump absolutely HATES veterans — we must spread the word
BREAKING - Trump just asked Congress for a death penalty for anyone who murders a police officer
Says the man who PARDONED over 400 violent insurrectionists who assaulted the Capitol Police on his behalf on January 6 -- with 4 officers ultimately dying
BREAKING: Republican members of Congress are cancelling and avoiding town halls because they don’t want to be humiliated by constituents. This is huge.
BREAKING: A whistleblower at the White House claims Elon Musk is running everything while Donald Trump sits in the Oval Office signing hundreds of meaningless executive orders he doesn’t read close enough to realize they're just made up to distract him.
BREAKING: In a stunning moment of incompetence, Donald Trump just completely failed to answer why he pardoned someone who used a stun gun to assault a police officer. This is insane.
BREAKING: Judge Aileen Cannon enrages MAGA world by announcing that she will NOT block the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith's report on his investigation into Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
And it gets even better...
The report could be be made public as early as tomorrow. Cannon refused to extend the earlier order she had issued which blocked the Department of Justice from releasing the report. That order expires at midnight.
Finally, we're going to get a good look at exactly what our felon president-elect stooped to while trying to destroy our democracy...
Please retweet and ❤️ if you support the full release of the report— and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a new pro-democracy social network that is exploding in popularity because Twitter and Facebook are trying to stop its growth — which is only making Tribel grow even faster. Please follow us on Tribel to get all of our breaking news alerts sent straight to your phone or computer by clicking the following link: https://t.co/HnJzSKj4Hp
BREAKING: MeidasTouch just exposed 44 Republicans for voting against the Forest Management Wildfire Prevention legislation in December. This is how it’s done.
BREAKING: CNN's Jim Acosta unleashes a fiery tirade against Donald Trump after he spreads blatant lies about the New Orleans attack being connected to illegal immigration.
This is how it's done...
"This is a problem and you were saying a few moments ago that you can't take him literally. Shouldn't you take the President of the United States literally?" said Acosta. "Isn't that sort of a baseline expectation, that he should stick to the facts?"
"I think look in this particular instance — and I didn't see the exact language that he used in the Truth Social post — I don't think that he was saying that this individual crossed illegally," said Republican strategist Neil Chatterjee. "If he was, it was based on initial reporting that was incorrect that somebody had—"
"We can show it up on screen again," interjected Acosta. "I mean he's blaming Biden's 'open border' policy. He's talking about that on Truth Social."
"But does he tie it directly to this particular—" said a floundering Chatterjee.
Acosta then quoted directly from Trump's deranged Truth Social post—
"When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true," wrote Trump.
"The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before," he went on. "Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department. The Trump Administration will fully support the City of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil!
"What he is saying in that Truth Social post is false!" said Acosta. "That is false."
"He's not saying that this individual crossed the border illegally but there were four hundred people on the terrorist watch list that did," said Chatterjee.
"Of course but when there's an act of terrorism in this country the incoming president should tell the truth to the American people!" said Acosta. "I mean that is just, isn't that what the president should do?"
We couldn't agree more. It it utterly detestable that Donald Trump is exploiting a tragedy like this to push his unrelated, bigoted agenda. We must continue to push back on his lies no matter what.
Please retweet and ❤️ to thank Jim Acosta for standing strong while other media figures cave to MAGA — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a new pro-democracy social network that is exploding in popularity because Twitter and Facebook are trying to stop its growth — which is only making Tribel grow even faster. Please follow us on Tribel to get all of our breaking news alerts sent straight to your phone or computer by clicking the following link: https://t.co/HnJzSKj4Hp
BREAKING: The State of New York Just said they won't dismiss Trump’s May conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records
This means that Trump will stay as a convicted felon
More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr. to lead HHS.
The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But the confirmation of Kennedy is a threat the Nobel laureates could not ignore, one of them said. https://t.co/urE652o9wV